Again I agree, and, though I don't want to put words in his mouth, from what Last Fearner wrote at the end of his latest post, it sounds like he does as well. But how do you think is the best way to do that, practically speaking?Today 01:42 PM
Frankly by people like LF and yourself along with me and som other that would love to see the Art back in charge by voicing our concerns to those that have power and not sit back like those before us have done and agree with every high ranking official out there.
Will that ever happen it already is just not on a large scale and we need it to be on a large scale.
Too many Master and such cry about the same thing but yet refuse to voice there concerns and until they do we must force the battle to our students to preserve what is right.
Just my opinion
Terry
Hey Terry---I think that's the right approach for sure, though I don't really count much; I won't reach dan rank for another year or so, probably, but you and Last Fearner and some of the other contributors to the TKD and KMA are high-enough ranking, and articulate enough, to make the case. The problem is to ideantify which people among officialdom needs to get this message and what kind of leverage can be applied....
I think I heard---on one of the MT threads, I believe---about an article that was published in Journal of Asian Martial Arts in 2005 about the decline in combat content of TKD and how it came about. Have you or anyone else on this thread seen that article? I'd love to get my hands on it---our library carries the journal, so I may trot over there and have a look. Will let you know if there really is such an article.